RAGTIME
September 03 – November 03

Storyline: Based on E. L. Doctorow’s novel which threaded fictional characters and historical figures into a portrait of three interlocking worlds that existed within miles of each other in the New York City of 1906, the musical focuses on a black piano player who suffers mindless injustice, a Jewish immigrant who rises to success in the new world and a white upper class family whose fates are intertwined with both of them. Through it all, the figures of Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, Booker T. Washington, the starlet Evelyn Nesbit and the escapist Houdini give a sense of time and historic import to the piece.